The native Americans got screwed by the white people in the beginning. They have not progressed and thrived like other cultures as a whole. We have tried to mitigate screwing them over in many ways. My biggest disappointment is how the tribal governments do not seem to ake care of their own. There is a heirarchy of families who have the big houses and the money and then the masses of tribal members who still live in really bad poverty. The fishing rights are held by families who hold onto the specific spots ont he rivers for generations. Just go to Taholah at the mouth of the Quinault if you want to see how a tribe lives that has opportunity and money. It is sickening.

So the tribes do not govern their new found wealth of fish and shellfish very well. I don't see the tribes thriving no matter how much aid and how big a percentage of the "take" they get. So many of them are greedy slobs just trying to earn enough for their next jug of whiskey. Some day if our politics keep going the way they are the tribes will have 100% of the fish and shellfish and I think they will be just as poor, drunk and greedy as they are now.